(A) contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are true or false. When a token is false and indicates a general intent to defraud, and it is used for that purpose, it will render the offender guilty of the crime of cheating; but if it is a mere privy token, as counterfeiting a letter in another man’s name, in order to cheat but. one individual, it would not be indictable. (B) commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
A sign or mark; a material evidince of the existence of a fact Thus, cheating by “false tokens'” implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to assist the person’s own fraud and falsehood in accomplishing the cheat Bee State v. Green, 18 N. J. Law, 181; State v. Middleton, Dud. (S. C.) 285; Jones v. State, 50 Ind. 476. Token-money. A conventional medium of exchange consisting of pieces of metal, fashioned in the shape and size of coins, and circulating among private persons, by consent, at a certain value. No longer permitted or recognized as money.